Get to Know an ‘L’ Line: Green Line, Lake Branch
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Take a virtual ride on the Lake branch of the CTA Green Line from Clinton to Harlem.
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Moving Stairs, Chicago’s Initial Subways
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In this week’s edition of Flashback Friday, a postcard featuring Chicago’s first subways, which opened in the early 1940s.
Belpark Theater: a Chicago Movie Palace Revealed
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The Belpark Theatre, located on Cicero in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood, was designed by Roy B. Blass and Edward P. Steinberg. It opened in 1927 as part of the Lubliner & Trinz circuit. In 1930, the Belpark Theatre was taken over by Balaban & Katz, which operated it for the remainder of its career as a movie house. The venue closed as a movie theater in the mid-1950s.
Like many former movie palaces that exist in the present day, adaptive reuse has been critical to its survival.
Washington Park Conservatory
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For Flashback Friday this week we take a look at a long lost South Side treasure–Washinton Park Conservatory.
